Why it’s alright to be an elite bastard 1 Jun 2008 John Pieret’s blog Thoughts in a Haystack has an essay on this that is well worth reading, although I’d rather be called an elite snob than an elite bastard because all Australians are bastards. It’s part of the Carnival of the Elite Bastards #1 at En Tequila es Verdad. General Science Social evolution
Humor Customers! Oy! 4 Jun 2009 I used to run a service department so that’s why this site amuses me so much. Yeah, I know I’m probably fifteen years behind everyone else: The World: America’s Theme Park (Note: this takes place at our cafe in Kuranda, Australia.) Tourist: “Lady, how about we make a deal? I… Read More
General Science Vitalism 17 Oct 2008 Melvyn Bragg, always an informed and interesting interviewer, has a podcast up from BBC Radio of an interview on the topic of vitalism in biology. Here the experts chosen are Patricia Fara, Fellow of Clare College and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge… Read More
General Science Storm World review in the LA Times 31 Jul 2007 Some guy named Chris Mooney got reviewed for his latest book Storm World in the LA Times. You’d think from the reviewer’s comments that he did a good job. I’ve heard the name before… now where? Hmmm…. leave that one with me for a bit. [I got my copy, Chris,… Read More
Nobody would ever mistake me for a Pommy Bastard. Well, there was that one time when Cliff Richard’s manager thought I came from South London, but that was a while ago and I’ve Aussied up since…
John, Pharyngulas new star Etha Williams has a fantastic post on The Consolation of Elitism which is well worth pointing to : http://jeanneshade.blogspot.com/2008/05/consolation-of-elitism.html Cheers, Martin
John – your attempt to link to the carnival up there goes to John Pieret’s blog. The Bastard Carnival is here Note that Etha’s post that Martin linked to is part of the same Carnival John W. meant to link to.